The Collaborative International Dictionary
earth colors \earth colors\ n. pl. colors like those of soil or earth; brownish-reds and browns.
Syn: earth tones. [PJC]
Usage examples of "earth colors".
She was wearing another of her pagan witchy outfits, all flapping silks and earth colors, designed to make her look long, pale, and interesting.
The brown and yellow earth colors and the bone black and lead white were stored in little earthenware pots, covered with parchment to keep them from drying out.
The young apprentices scrambled down the scaffolding, but Michelangelo remained to watch Ghirlandaio mix his mineral earth colors in little jars of water, squeeze his brush between his fingers and commence his painting.
Iris preferred earth colors, greens and browns, with accents of blue, whereas Chime preferred yellow, gold, and ivory.
Every one of them, bright neon things moving fast against the dark-earth colors of that landscape.